The Speccy is 25 today

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:23 pm 0

Wow, that book is lovely. Ordered...

My Spectrum-Love is well documented, but if someone could dig up the old Rodent 'Greatest Spectrum Moments' that'd be ace... I can't find the fucking thing.

cj2003 · Post by **cj2003** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:57 pm 0

chub wrote:Extreme close-up!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rum48k.jpg

Hello, my new background screen.

Post by **Muttley** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:01 pm 0

Anyone fancy a ZX Spectrum Anniversary Llamascores Competition??

Muttley

Kenz · Post by **Kenz** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:21 pm 0

piku wrote:
Kenz wrote: To celebrate the anniversary I've put together a 1 hour show dedicated to Speccy music - LOAD "" it from http://www.binaryzone.org/podcast/ and fill your ears with beepy loveliness!
I tried but your RSS feed only lists up to Episode 4...

It can take a while to go through the system when I update the feed - give it a try now and let me know if you have any probs downloading the show. Ta!

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:15 pm 0

http://www.wayoftherodent.com/gd101/hug ... ectrum.htm

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:43 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:http://www.wayoftherodent.com/gd101/hugeweirdspectrum.htm

Does the C64 keyword make the display blocky and turn everything into a shade of brown?

Post by **Muttley** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:47 pm 0

Alarm wrote:
Sickboy wrote:http://www.wayoftherodent.com/gd101/hugeweirdspectrum.htm

Does the C64 keyword make the display blocky and turn everything into a shade of brown?

No, it removes colour clash, allows more than 2 colours on screen at any one time and upgrades the sound from "broken doorbell" to "proper synth"

Muttley

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:52 pm 0

And Â£300 to the price.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:32 pm 0

It's started...

Post by **Muttley** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:36 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:It's started...

After 25 years it's a hard habit to break.

Despite being a C64 owner who takes much delight in good natured C64 vs. Speccy nose tweaking, it's great that the 25th anniversary is getting a lot of attention.

The Speccy did have some great games which I thoroughly enjoyed when visiting my various friends and my cousin (when we were bored of his Atari 400 that is) who had one, I have fond memories of Fairlight, Dun Darach, Quazartron and Winter Games (for some reason).

Muttley

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:41 pm 0

My god this makes me feel old.......

I can still remember the first Speccy games I ever played (Manic Miner followed by Mr Wimpy for the record). I still crank up Spectaculator on regular occasions to replay some of the classic games and whilst things have obviously moved on it's still fair to say that a lot of speccy games retain their charm.

Excellent stuff - think i'll be picking up that ZX Book shortly too - it looks the business......

TheDuke · Post by **TheDuke** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:17 pm 0

3D Deathchase was the first Speccy game I played.

unclescruff · Post by **unclescruff** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:27 pm 0

*sniff

I think Thro the wall was my first game played. Even my mum like playing Hungry Horace. Changing the questions on Animal Vegetable Mineral so that it always told my younger brother he was a cunt. Using basic to fill the screen with FUCK OFF... *sniffle

Meeeemorriiiies...meeemoriiies

juice · Post by **juice** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:41 pm 0

piku wrote:Quite fitting then that my ZX Spectrum Book arrived today in the post

I keep being tempted by that book. 256 pages of shiny Spectrum goodness... yum!

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:48 pm 0

how about celebrating with a get together on jet set willy online